2014 Environmental Grants

Association of American Geographers

Washington, DC

$10,000

to support a series of field expeditions and joint research presentations on challenges and advantages of sustainable development and watershed management for the Great Lakes and Lake Baikal communities in April and June 2015.

Bank Information Center

Washington, DC

$20,000

to support two-week fellowships at BIC in Washington, D.C. to provide advocacy training and outreach support for civil society organizations in Armenia, Bulgaria, Mongolia, Poland, Russia, and the United States in 2015.

Crude Accountability

Alexandria, VA

$20,000

to support bilateral environmental exchanges addressing oil and gas development in the Krasnodar Region of Russia in spring 2015.

Denver Zoological Foundation

Denver, CO

$20,000

to support bilateral exchanges in 2015 focused on conservation education, cultural resource conservation, and wildlife veterinary services in Mongolia.

Earth Island Institute

Berkeley, CA

$30,000

to support three exchanges in 2014 to train Siberian and Mongolian guides and naturalists around the greater Lake Baikal watershed.

Earth Island Institute

Berkeley, CA

$20,000

to send six American environmentalists to Yerevan, Armenia to participate in a year-long series of seminars with Armenian Environmental Network to address mining concerns in 2014 and 2015.

Earth Island Institute

Berkeley, CA

$15,000

to send American energy specialists to Almaty, Kazakhstan and Lviv, Ukraine to exchange best practices in energy efficiency, low-carbon development, and NGO management in September 2015.

EarthCorps

Seattle, WA

$20,000

to support four Central and Eastern European participants in EarthCorps’ 2015 Central and Eastern European Environmental Training Exchange in Seattle, Washington.

Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Eugene, OR

$16,000

to support the participation of two program coordinators from the Mongolian Centre for Human Rights and Development in the 2014 E-LAW Fellows Program.

George Wright Society

Hancock, MI

$15,000

to support the participation of three Bosnian management staff from Una National Park in a two-week study tour of US national parks and forests to learn best practices in park management in spring 2015.

Mongol Ecology Center

Tucson, AZ

$30,000

to bring five American park specialists to Mongolia for two weeks to lead skill-building workshops in park management, design, and infrastructure around Lake Hovsgol National Park in summer 2014.

The Nature Conservancy

New York, NY

$40,000

to support a series of learning exchanges in 2015 between environmental scientists, NGO representatives, and governmental officials from Mongolia and the United States to build enduring conservation capacity in Mongolia.

Pacific Environment

San Francisco, CA

$25,000

to provide continued support for the Russian Fire Prevention Program in 2014.

Pacific Environment

San Francisco, CA

$90,000

to support PE’s activities in 2014–2015, including several exchanges relating to protected areas and best practices in the Russian Far East; identifying sustainable, clean energy alternatives; and Russian participation in the Arctic NGO Forum to address indigenous issues in the environment.

Pacific Environment

San Francisco, CA

$15,000

to enable Russian participation in the Russian Far East Conservation Assessment Strategy Session and Funder Briefing in New York City in November 2014.

Panthera

New York, NY

$12,000

to send one American conservation expert to Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and to bring one Tajik biologist to the United States to continue development of Panthera’s community-based snow leopard conservation project in summer and fall 2014.

Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA

$15,000

to send four American agricultural scientists to Ukraine to exchange best practices in beekeeping techniques and to bring four Ukrainian counterparts to the United States to examine new research initiatives surrounding Colony Collapse Disorder in 2014 and 2015.

The Peregrine Fund

Boise, ID

$20,000

to support the participation of four Russian scientists at The Peregrine Fund’s Tundra Conservation Network conference in February 2014.

Southwest Research and Information Center

Albuquerque, NM

$35,000

to support the multi-year Mining and the Environment Dialogue project, a three-country exchange for emerging environmentalists from Mongolia, Siberia, and the United States in 2014.

Tides Foundation

San Francisco, CA

$8,000

to support the ongoing conservation and sustainable development activities of the Arctic Funders Group in 2014.

University of Vermont

Burlington, VT

$20,000

to support bilateral exchanges for four American and three Romanian scientists to participate in the project Protecting Forests and Livelihoods in the Romanian Carpathians Through Community Management in July and October 2014.

Wild Salmon Center

Portland, OR

$20,000

to support a week-long exchange in Anchorage, Alaska for six sport fishing and conservation leaders from the Russian Far East in July 2014.

Wildlife Conservation Society

Bronx, NY

$20,000

to support the WCS initiative, Alleviating Conflicts between Bears and Humans in the Russian Far East on Sakhalin Island, Russia in July 2014.

Wildlife Conservation Society

Bronx, NY

$30,000

to bring seven Alaska Natives to Chukotka, Russia in summer 2014 as part of the WCS initiative Transboundary Dialogue: Sharing Indigenous Community Perspectives on Arctic Shipping and Food Security in Bering and Anadyr Straits in summer 2014.

Wildlife Conservation Society

Bronx, NY

$20,000

to support the participation of five key Mongolian government staff, ministerial staff, and park managers from the three protected areas in the Eastern Steppe in a capacity building tour to the United States in June 2015.

Wildlife Conservation Society

Bronx, NY

$30,000

to support joint research between WCS and Russian partners at the Russian Academy of Sciences to trap yellow-billed loons, implant satellite transmitters, and collect and analyze the resulting data in Chukotka, Russia in June 2015.

Woods Hole Research Center

Falmouth, MA

$10,000

to bring Russian scientist Valentin Spektor to Woods Hole Research Center in fall 2014 to participate in WHRC’s Russian Visiting Scholars Program for intenstive technical training in new Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology.

Woods Hole Research Center

Falmouth, MA

$12,000

to support Siberian scientist Nastya Zimova’s participation in WHRC’s Russian Visiting Scholars Program to train her in techniques to mitigate Arctic permafrost melt in fall 2015.

World Wildlife Fund

Washington, DC

$30,000

to support the participation of four Russian researchers in a workshop in Anchorage, Alaska discussing precautionary planning to prevent and mitigate potential impacts of increasing shipping traffic on native communities and wildlife populations in September 2014.

Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council

Fairbanks, AK

$25,000

to send members of Network of Indigenous Knowledge to Moscow and Zhaigansk, Russia for meetings, instructional workshops, and to exchange best practices in water resource monitoring in August 2014.